Publications#

A list of publications using the Rayleigh code.

Software Citation#

List: [Fea24], [Fea22] [Fea21b], [Fea21a], [Fea18b], [Fea18a]

Fea18a: N. Featherstone. Rayleigh 0.9.1. 2018. doi:http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1236565.
Fea18b: N. Featherstone. Rayleigh version 0.9.0. 2018. doi:http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1158290.
Fea21a: N. Featherstone. Rayleigh 1.0.0. 2021. doi:http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5683601.
Fea21b: N. Featherstone. Rayleigh 1.0.1. 2021. doi:http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5774039.
Fea22: N. Featherstone. Rayleigh 1.1.0. 2022. doi:http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6522806.
Fea24: N. Featherstone. Rayleigh 1.2.0. 2024. doi:http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11391213.

List: [BT23a], [BT23b], [DGK23]

BT23a: Connor P. Bice and Juri Toomre. Effects of full-sphere convection on m-dwarf dynamo action, flux emergence, and spin-down. The Astrophysical Journal, 951(1):79, 2023. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/acd2db.
BT23b: Connor P. Bice and Juri Toomre. Nature of intense magnetism and differential rotation in convective dynamos of m-dwarf stars with tachoclines. The Astrophysical Journal, 947(1):36, 2023. URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acac78, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/acac78.
DGK23: K. Duer, E. Galanti, and Y. Kaspi. Gas Giant Simulations of Eddy-Driven Jets Accompanied by Deep Meridional Circulation. AGU Advances, 4(6):e2023AV000908, 2023. doi:10.1029/2023AV000908.

List: [CF22], [MHF+22], [HYFA22]

CF22: Maria E. Camisassa and Nicholas A. Featherstone. Solar-like to antisolar differential rotation: a geometric interpretation. The Astrophysical Journal, 938(1):65, 2022. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac879f.
HYFA22: Moritz H. Heimpel, Rakesh K. Yadav, Nicholas A. Featherstone, and Jonathan M. Aurnou. Polar and mid-latitude vortices and zonal flows on jupiter and saturn. Icarus, 379:114942, 2022. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2022.114942.
MHF+22: Loren I. Matilsky, Bradley W. Hindman, Nicholas A. Featherstone, Catherine C. Blume, and Juri Toomre. Confinement of the solar tachocline by dynamo action in the radiative interior. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 940(2):L50, 2022. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac93ef.

List: [OFC21], [COF21], [KF21]

COF21: Michael A Calkins, Ryan J Orvedahl, and Nicholas A Featherstone. Large-scale balances and asymptotic scaling behaviour in spherical dynamos. Geophysical Journal International, 227(2):1228–1245, 2021. doi:10.1093/gji/ggab274.
KF21: Lydia Korre and Nicholas A. Featherstone. On the dynamics of overshooting convection in spherical shells: effect of density stratification and rotation. The Astrophysical Journal, 923(1):52, 2021. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac2dea.
OFC21: Ryan J Orvedahl, Nicholas A Featherstone, and Michael A Calkins. Large-scale magnetic field saturation and the Elsasser number in rotating spherical dynamo models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 507(1):L67–L71, 2021. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slab097.

List: [MHT20], [MT20], [HFJ20]

HFJ20: Bradley W. Hindman, Nicholas A. Featherstone, and Keith Julien. Morphological classification of the convective regimes in rotating stars. The Astrophysical Journal, 898(2):120, 2020. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab9ec2.
MHT20: Loren I. Matilsky, Bradley W. Hindman, and Juri Toomre. Revisiting the sun’s strong differential rotation along radial lines. The Astrophysical Journal, 898(2):111, 2020. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab9ca0.
MT20: Loren I. Matilsky and Juri Toomre. Exploring bistability in the cycles of the solar dynamo through global simulations. The Astrophysical Journal, 892(2):106, 2020. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab791c.

List: [BM19]

BM19: B. Buffett and H. Matsui. Equatorially trapped waves in earth's core. Geophysical Journal International, 218(2):1210–1225, 2019. doi:10.1093/gji/ggz233.

List: [KMB18], [MXF+18], [OCFH18]

KMB18: B. B. Karak, M. Miesch, and Y. Bekki. Consequences of high effective prandtl number on solar differential rotation and convective velocity. Physics of Fluids, 30(4):046602, 2018. doi:10.1063/1.5022034.
MXF+18: B. Miquel, J-H Xie, N. Featherstone, K. Julien, and E. Knobloch. Equatorially trapped convection in a rapidly rotating shallow shell. Physical Review Fluids, 2018. doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.053801.
OCFH18: R. J. Orvedahl, M. A. Calkins, N. A. Featherstone, and B. W. Hindman. Prandtl-number effects in high-rayleigh-number spherical convection. The Astrophysical Journal, 856(1):13, 2018. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaaeb5.

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List: [FH16], [MHA+16], [OMaraMFA16]

FH16: N.A. Featherstone and B.W. Hindman. The spectral amplitude of stellar convection and its scaling in the high-rayleigh-number regime. The Astrophysical Journal, 818(1):32, 2016. doi:http://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/818/1/32.
MHA+16: H. Matsui, E. Heien, J. Aubert, J.M. Aurnou, M. Avery, B. Brown, B.A. Buffett, F. Busse, U.R. Christensen, C.J. Davies, N. Featherstone, T. Gastine, G.A. Glatzmaier, D. Gubbins, J.-L. Guermond, Y.-Y. Hayashi, R. Hollerbach, L.J. Hwang, A. Jackson, C.A. Jones, W. Jiang, L.H. Kellogg, W. Kuang, M. Landeau, P.H. Marti, P. Olson, A. Ribeiro, Y. Sasaki, N. Schaeffer, R.D. Simitev, A. Sheyko, L. Silva, S. Stanley, F. Takahashi, S.-ichi Takehiro, J. Wicht, and A.P. Willis. Performance benchmarks for a next generation numerical dynamo model. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17(5):1586–1607, 2016. doi:http://doi.org/10.1002/2015GC006159.
OMaraMFA16: B. O'Mara, M. S. Miesch, N. A. Featherstone, and K. C. Augustson. Velocity amplitudes in global convection simulations: the role of the prandtl number and near-surface driving. Advances in Space Research, 2016. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2016.03.038.

Network diagram illustrates the relationship between authors of the above publications.